#! /bin/sh ## Hit the major search engines. Hose the [large] output to a file! ## autoconverts multiple arguments into the right format for given servers -- ## usually worda+wordb, with certain lame exceptions like dejanews. ## Extracting and post-sorting the URLs is highly recommended... ## ## Altavista currently handled by a separate script; may merge at some point. ## ## _H* original 950824, updated 951218 and 960209 test "${1}" = "" && echo 'Needs argument[s] to search for!' && exit 1 PLUSARG="`echo $* | sed 's/ /+/g'`" PIPEARG="`echo ${PLUSARG} | sed 's/+/|/g'`" IFILE=/tmp/.webq.$$ # Don't have "nc"? Get "netcat" from avian.org and add it to your toolkit. doquery () { echo GET "$1" | nc -v -i 1 -w 30 "$2" "$3" } # changed since original: now supplying port numbers and separator lines... echo "=== Yahoo ===" doquery "/bin/search?p=${PLUSARG}&n=300&w=w&s=a" search.yahoo.com 80 echo '' ; echo "=== Webcrawler ===" doquery "/cgi-bin/WebQuery?searchText=${PLUSARG}&maxHits=300" webcrawler.com 80 # the infoseek lamers want "registration" before they do a real search, but... echo '' ; echo "=== Infoseek ===" echo " is broken." # doquery "WW/IS/Titles?qt=${PLUSARG}" www2.infoseek.com 80 # ... which doesn't work cuz their lame server wants the extra newlines, WITH # CRLF pairs ferkrissake. Fuck 'em for now, they're hopelessly broken. If # you want to play, the basic idea and query formats follow. # echo "GET /WW/IS/Titles?qt=${PLUSARG}" > $IFILE # echo "" >> $IFILE # nc -v -w 30 guide-p.infoseek.com 80 < $IFILE # this is kinda flakey; might have to do twice?? echo '' ; echo "=== Opentext ===" doquery "/omw/simplesearch?SearchFor=${PLUSARG}&mode=phrase" \ search.opentext.com 80 # looks like inktomi will only take hits=100, or defaults back to 30 # we try to suppress all the stupid rating dots here, too echo '' ; echo "=== Inktomi ===" doquery "/query/?query=${PLUSARG}&hits=100" ink3.cs.berkeley.edu 1234 | \ sed '/^<IMG ALT.*inktomi.*\.gif">$/d' #djnews lame shit limits hits to 120 and has nonstandard format echo '' ; echo "=== Dejanews ===" doquery "/cgi-bin/nph-dnquery?query=${PIPEARG}+maxhits=110+format=terse+defaultOp=AND" \ smithers.dejanews.com 80 # OLD lycos: used to work until they fucking BROKE it... # doquery "/cgi-bin/pursuit?query=${PLUSARG}&maxhits=300&terse=1" \ # query5.lycos.cs.cmu.edu 80 # NEW lycos: wants the User-agent field present in query or it returns nothing # 960206: webmaster@lycos duly bitched at # 960208: reply received; here's how we will now handle it: echo \ "GET /cgi-bin/pursuit?query=${PLUSARG}&maxhits=300&terse=terse&matchmode=and&minscore=.5 HTTP/1.x" \ > $IFILE echo "User-agent: *FUCK OFF*" >> $IFILE echo "Why: go ask todd@pointcom.com (Todd Whitney)" >> $IFILE echo '' >> $IFILE echo '' ; echo "=== Lycos ===" nc -v -i 1 -w 30 twelve.srv.lycos.com 80 < $IFILE rm -f $IFILE exit 0 # CURRENTLY BROKEN [?] # infoseek # some args need to be redone to ensure whatever "and" mode applies